Wichita eagle., 1887-06-02
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WoMAN's GROWING GLORY.
Olive Logan Says American Women DO
Not Take Care of Their Hair.

Olive Logan Says American Women DO
Not Take Care of Their Hair.
Wandering upon time through the
outskEting fields of small provincial
town in England, I came upon one of
those interesting exhibitions Of the kind
which no doubt have been seen in Britain
since the middle ages. A caravan of wild
beasts in charge of family of mounte
banks had been brought to halt, and,
picturesquely grouped upon the green
sward in front of the temporary stage
which had been erected the preceding
night, were to be seen all the gaping
mouthed yokels of the village, eager to
view the many marvels promised on pay
ment of silver sixpence. Among the
wonders found an announcement of ''the
display of her great natural curiosity, by
Miss Sigismunda Montmorency, aged IT,"
I fancied that the girl might be one OF
those strange vocalists whose voices seem
compounded from the masculine and fem
mime range, but when the rosy checked
lass appeared it came out that her great
curiosity was her hair, which fell upon
the floor and dragged like court mantle
when she walked.
There is reaction in favor of hair.
For several years its glories have been
clouded, but Of late there has been mani
fest desire to possess a luXuriant crown
of capillary treasure. Biblical eulogy is
not lacking anent the surprising splendor
of woman's hair, while as for that of men,
abundant hair has from the time of the
ancients been considered the attribute of
divinity. What painter, what sculptor OF
old has ever represented Jupiter, Apollo
OF Neptune without q glorious quantity of
beautiful hair. Phidias said that his
statue of Jupiter Olympus was inspired by
Homer, whose pages are full of apostro-
Plies to the splendor of the hair of his
heroes. Virgil, to express the power of a
Hydrologic god, said that the shaking of
his hair caused all Olympus to tremble.
Coming down to modern days, who can
forget the poetic assertion that beauty
draws us by single hair?
American families in general have fine
hair 1t grows abundantly, like other
vegetables, under these favoring skies.
But they do not take altogether good care
of it, The hair needs great deal Of ven
tilation 1t should be brushed and sepa-
rated by wide toothed comb morning
and evening. 1t should be allowed to |
hang down untrammeled by combs, pins
or strings when one is in dishabille, but no |
married woman should ever appear in |
company with dshevelled hair. A few |
years ago this frantic mode prevailed |
among women of poor taste and limited |
reading. The flowing hair is the mark of |
virgin, in all pictorial art, and is so
mentioned by Horace Walpole in the his
tory of painting, published more than
100 years ago. Queen Victoria will not
permit married woman whose hair is
flying about her shoulders to approach her
presence; but the little Wales and Edin-
burgh girls-her grandchildren-wear
their golden locks unfettered by the snood
In spite of the dictum of interested hair
sellers and hairdressers, nothing is so
beautiful and becoming to a woman as
iuxuriant natural hair, simply twined
about the head, while a truant love lock
here and there escapes from bondage and
falls in curves of beauty on the brows.-
Olive Logan in New York Mail and Ex-
press.